For most of people, they store nearly all of their data on their iPhone. They rely on the iPhone to communicate with others, take photos, save important data, send emails, and shopping and pay on iPhone. The iPhone nearly contains all of our personal data. Once the iPhone is lost or stolen, the data will be stolen by others. That could be a disaster for all of us. Therefore, we should protect our data in case there is an iPhone lost.
How to protect your data before a phone lost?
Whenever you use an iPhone, you should set a passcode for it. This is the basic and first security measure for your iPhone. With the passcode, other people cannot access to your phone without the correct passcode. The passcode is a combination of letters and numbers. What’s more, you can use the Find my iPhone feature to find your iPhone after lost and set a passcode over the Internet.
Erase data after iPhone stolen
To protect your data on iPhone, you can set the iPhone to erase all your data after failed password attempts. You can go to Settings>Touch ID&Passcode, at the bottom, you can find Erase Data slider. Turn on the Erase Data slider. It will erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts. If you are not good at remembering your password, you should be careful to enable this feature. But you can back up your data on iPhone regularly. In case all your data on iPhone has been erased, you still can recover from the backups.
How to protect and recover data after iPhone is lost?
In case your iPhone is stolen, you can use the Apple’s Find My iPhone service to locate your phone on the map via GPS. You also can set a passcode over the Internet or delete all the data on your iPhone.
If you cannot find your iPhone back and you have erased all the data on iPhone, you have lost all your data. But you can recover data from your backups.
If you have backed up your iPhone to iTunes, you can find the iTunes backups on your computer. Then you need to use an iPhone data recovery software to retrieve your data.
Recover your lost data on iPhone with data recovery software
Download H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer
Run the software, it will display the latest backups that you have made in iTunes. If not, you can click “Browse For iTunes Backups” to find your iTunes backups for this iPhone.
Choose the backup that you need to scan it. This process may take several minutes.
After scan, it lists all the contents in your iPhone’s backup.
Preview the contents and check the data that you need to export them.
After the software tells you that Export successfully, you can check the recovered data on the recovery path you choose.
Above all, password protected your iPhone is the most important thing, and back up your data regularly will prevent you from accidental data loss.